Proverbial Wisdom

Express the idea behind each of these proverbs using different words as much as you can.

547. A Briton, even in love, should be
A subject, not a slave.

William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

Poems founded on the Affections

548. It will never out of the flesh that’s bred in the bone.

Ben Jonson (1572-1637)

Every Man in his Humour (Downright), Act II,
Scene I

549. All who joy would win
Must share it, — Happiness was born a twin.

George Gordon Byron (1788-1824)

Don Juan, Can. II, St. 172

550. Men are never so good or so bad as their opinions.

Sir James Mackintosh (1765-1832)

Ethical Philosophy

551. Beware
Of entrance to a quarrel; but being in,
Bear’t that the opposed may beware of thee.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Hamlet (Polonius), Act I, Scene III

552. What better school for manners, than the company of virtuous women?

David Hume (1711-1776)

Essay XIV, The Rise of Arts and Sciences